Principal Software Development Engineer

About the role

AMD is seeking a strategic software engineering lead to improve the performance of key applications and benchmarks. The role focuses on closing software-stack gaps, optimizing GPU communication and AI workloads, and working with customers to bring solutions from proof of concept to production.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with strategic customers to understand their requirements, challenges, and identify opportunities for AMD hardware and software to provide value
• Close gaps in the AMD software stack needed to support customer solutions
• Optimize collective communication primitives on GPU accelerators (NCCL/RCCL)
• Work hands-on as a technical expert and creative problem-solver, developing side-by-side with customers to drive projects from proof of concept to production
• Act as the voice of the customer, translating their needs and your on-the-ground insights into actionable feedback that shapes the future of AMD's AI roadmap
• Use Agentic AI to enhance productivity, automate workflows, and improve operational efficiency
• Thrive in unfamiliar territory with a high degree of autonomy, finding novel ways to apply AMD technology to real-world problems
• Apply a data-minded approach to target optimization efforts
• Debug/fix existing issues and research alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work
• Stay informed of software and hardware trends and innovations, especially pertaining to algorithms and architecture